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What is a Native American, an Aborigine and a Maori? A comparative analysis of three English subject textbooks for Norwegian upper-secondary schools
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2018-05-15)The purpose of this paper is to analyse the visual and textual representation of indigenous cultures in three English subject textbooks for Norwegian upper-secondary schools. The current study focuses on theories of dynamic cultural understanding, descriptive cultural understanding and structural binarism. The aim is to examine how English subject textbooks affect the development of upper-secondary ... -
"What's happened to this family anyway?" : the disintegration of the American family in selected plays by O'Neill, Miller, and Shepard
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2009-06)This thesis examines the disintegration of the American family as depicted in selected plays by Eugene O’Neill, Arthur Miller, and Sam Shepard. Four plays are central: Long Day’s Journey into Night (1956), Death of a Salesman (1949), Buried Child (1978), and True West (1980). (Journey and Salesman constitute my major focus and serve to generate my thesis statement, while Buried Child and True West ... -
“Where niggers crop on shares and live like animals”. Racialized Space in William Faulkner´s Light in August and Go Down, Moses
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2018-05-29)This thesis sets out to explore the production of social space, with a particular focus on how these spaces are racialized, in two major works by William Faulkner, Light in August (1932) and Go Down, Moses (1942). By examining how different characters interact with various spaces appearing in the narratives, the thesis aims to illustrate how the racially segregated aspect of culture in Faulkner´s ... -
White exploitation, dehumanization and racial identity : the history of slavery and race relations in William Faulkner’s Go down, Moses.
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2009-06)Through seven interrelated stories, Faulkner explores in Go Down, Moses the effects of slavery and the changing relationship between blacks and whites as he traces the different branches of the McCaslin family tree through three generations of whites and four generations of blacks, from the Civil War and into the 1940's. In my thesis I want to explore the relationship between the black and white ... -
Women, letters and the empire : the role of the epistolary narrative in Alice Walker's The color purple
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2011-05)In the 1982 novel "The Color Purple", Alice Walker wrote the first African-American epistolary novel. It is narrated in letters written by a black woman who writes in her rural dialect rather than Standard English, and is widely acknowledged for giving a voice to a character who is silenced not only by her race and her class, but also by sexual violence. This thesis investigates the role of the ... -
Wordsworth’s Naturalistic Spirituality. The Effects of Romantic Paganism in William Wordsworth’s Poetic Works
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2018-05-13)Paganism flourished during the end of the Romantic period and the younger Romantics were considered to have been influenced by this. However, the pagan aspects that influenced several of the younger generation’s work were also around when William Wordsworth wrote his poetry. My thesis explores an unnoticed or neglected aspect of William Wordsworth’s poetic works, his nature-worshipping and pagan ...
